This month started off with a real
‘bang’ in Lapoc with over 70 pastors and ministry leaders from every corner of
our work coming together for teaching and fellowship. The photo above was taken
at one of the meal times and we were singing a rousing Happy Birthday to
Wing-Wing and Richard whose birthdays coincided with this conference!
Paul thoroughly enjoyed sharing the
Word: one topic was why we have different verses in scripture enclosed in
brackets with a footnote that says, ‘Some
of the earliest manuscripts do not include these verses,’ and about the
Textus Receptus and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Another beautiful topic that he
taught on from 1 Cor 8 was about stumbling our brother.
Man-ai is filling us with
anticipation! This is our newest mission field and the Tumpagon and Tinaytayan
churches are very excited to be jointly sending out the first missionary team
to this area!! Paul and Ronnie have been overseeing all the building and I must
say that this building project has really exhausted Paul, but it is coming to
an end Lord willing within a couple more weeks. The two new missionary couples
have been coming to our place weekly along with their pastors, and we have been
doing missionary orientation with them. It’s been funny, interesting and
helpful as we’ve tried to put our 30 years of mistakes and experiences and
lessons into a nutshell to help these two young couples as they head for this
new field. They are excited, apprehensive, are aware of their fragility and
brokenness but know that they can be faithful ministers IN Christ!!!
Jubab just arrived back from Japan
yesterday and is being debriefed at the OMF headquarters and will head back for
his last semester at Bible College at the end of the week!!! He had an amazing
time!!
